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President Obama’s teleprompter may be more valuable than even his biggest critics claim. After all, a man who stole Obama’s teleprompter was sentenced to seven years in federal prison.

“The theft of government property is a serious offense,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Roderick Young said during Virginia resident Eric Brown’s sentencing hearing. “It’s all the more serious when the property belongs to the White House Communications Agency.”

Brown, 49, agreed to the lengthy sentence in order to avoid being prosecuted for 14 other truck thefts, according to NBC News. Virginia sentencing guidelines stipulated a prison term of about three years for the theft of government property.

Over the past 30 years, Brown has been convicted of 36 crimes.

“If I had to sum up Mr. Brown’s character, it would be that he’s a thief,” Judge John A. Gibney said.

Read more at Yahoo News. By Eric Pfeiffer.

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From: http://www.westernjournalism.com/man-gets-seven-years-for-stealing-obamas-teleprompter/

By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool

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Polycom to Announce First Quarter 2013 Financial Results on Tuesday, April 23, 2013

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Polycom, Inc. (NAS: PLCM) , the global leader in open, standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C), plans to report financial results on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. Financial results will be announced following the close of market, followed by a conference call and webcast at 5 p.m. EST, hosted by Andrew Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Eric Brown, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

To participate from US/Canada, please call 1.800.404.5245, and outside US/Canada, please call 1.303.223.2680. The passcode for the call is “Polycom.” Polycom will also provide a live video webcast of the call on www.polycom.com.

For callers unable to attend, a replay of the call and webcast will be available. The replay number for US/Canada callers is 1.800.633.8284, and for callers outside US/Canada, 1.402.977.9140, using passcode 21654613. A replay of the webcast will be available on www.polycom.com/investors for approximately 12 months.

About Polycom

Polycom is the global leader in open, standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions for voice and video collaboration, trusted by more than 415,000 customers around the world. Polycom solutions are powered by the Polycom^® RealPresence^® Platform, comprehensive software infrastructure and rich APIs that interoperate with the broadest set of communication, business, mobile and cloud applications and devices to deliver secure face-to-face video collaboration in any environment. Polycom and its ecosystem of over 7,000 partners provide truly unified communications solutions that deliver the best user experience, highest multi-vendor interoperability, and lowest TCO. Visit www.polycom.com or connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to learn how we’re pushing the greatness of human collaboration forward.

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